Chap. XL. from the I. of James I. to the Revolution.

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likewise died, at Roan,mDecember 1674.in the sixty seventh Year of his Age.

4 t . - The Beginning of the next Year, was

ll ante les 1 " concluded the "Triple Alliance , between^Eng- England, Holland and Sweden, to checkhnd’ fl ° 1 ' t ^ ie P° wer > as well as the vast Designsof France ; and soon after a Treaty ofCommerce,with the States General, tho’there was Reason, at the fame Time,to think, the King did all this only toamuse the People, and that a secondWar with the Dutch was then design-ed.

Sir Thomas Allen’j Expedition a-gainjl the Algerines.

The Algerines having lately com-mitted some Hostilities against the Sub-jects both of England and Holland, SirThomas Allen was sent with a Squadron,who block’d up Algiers, and took anddestroyed several of their Ship^ Inthe mean Time, six of those Corsairs,from four and thirty to four and twen-ty Guns, being chafed by a Dutch Squa-dron, under the Command of VanGhendt, and retiring towards their ownCoast, would probably have escaped,had not four English Frigats, ( theHamp -Jhire, the Portsmouth, the Jersey, andthe Centurion ) under Commodo reBeach,come in to the Assistance of the Dutch,and, after a close Chafe, obliged themto run aground: In which Situation, be-ing attacked by the Englijh and Dutch,in their Boats, they were-all taken,after being left by their Men; And agreat Number of Christian Slaves,of dif-ferent Nations,were released. TheÆVz-glish Commodore presented 16 DutchSlaves to Van Ghendt, and received, byWay of Exchange, twenty English ;But the Ships being leaky, were burnt.The fame Year, some English Frigatsattacked seven of the Turk’s best Shipsnear Cape Gaeta. The Admiral andVice-Admiral of the Barbarians carriedfifty-six Guns each, the Rear-Admiralsixty, and the least of the Rest, forty.But, after a sharp Fight, the Vice-Ad-miral was funk, and the Rest retiredVery much disabled : And Capt. Kemp-thorn, afterward Sir John, being attack-e d alone, by seven of those Corsairs ,defended himself so well, that he sunk'tvvo or three, and put the Rest toFlight.In the mean Time, Sir Thomas Allen

obliged the Government of Algiers, to 1668-osser a Release of all their English Cap-tives, and to renew their Treaties, withthe Addition of some new Articles toour Advantage; And then,returning,leftSir Edward Spragge in his Room.

Captain John Narborough’r Voyage to

the Streight of Magellan, the South-

Sea, andseveral Parts of America.

Captain John Ahr5oroz^-Z),afterwardsHarris’i Col.Sir John Narborough, having received Vol. 11. p.a Commission to command His Maje- S fpsty’s Ship the Sweep fakes, of thr sion°firtbisHundred Tuns, six and thirty Guns and Voyage fromeighty Men, with Ammunition and 0 - the Govern-ther Necessaries proportionable, and WMtf *Provisions, at full Allowance for four-teen Months, set Sail, on the six andtwentieth of September, in Companywith the Batchelor-Pmk, of seventyTuns, and four Guns, with twenty Menand Boys, and Ammunition according-ly, Provisions, at full Allowance fortwelve Months, and Goods proper tobarter with the Savages.

The Design of this Voyage was to n r -.pass the Streight of Magellan, into the ^ 1 ’South-Sea, and fail along the AmericanCoast, to the North, as far as Baldavia,to make a Discovery of the Seas andCoasts of that Part of the World, and,if possible, to fettle a Trade or Com-merce there : Thus much of the De- Arrival atsign of the Voyage was made known, in the Isle of st.Instructions given to Captain Flemming , ^ ag0 ‘Commander of the Batchelor, at PortPr ay a, in the Isie of St. J ago, where,after having touch’d at the Isles of Ma-dera and Mayo, they arrived, on thethirtieth of Ofiober.

I find nothing remarkable in this TheypafitheVoyage, ’till their Arrival at Cape St. Streight ofMary’s, at the Entrance of the Streight Ma § eJIan -of Magellan, the twenty-fecond of ()£fo-ber, 1670. They entered the Streight,and at Elizabeth’s Isle had some Traf-fick with the Natives; As they hadlikewise at Port-Famine. Being pass’dthe Streight,they arrived the fifteenth ofDecember, in the Harbour of Baldavia sj ve . aton the Coasts of Chili, in the South-Sea, 3 avia ’in nine and thirty Degrees and six andfifty Minutes, S. Latitude. They en-deavour’d to trade here with the Na- The Spani-tives; But the Spaniards, who have fe- ards preventveral Forts there would not fussier them, their‘Trade.nor would they let them take in fressiWater. They used them, however, at

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